Chipmunk and Vinca 2 Digital Stamps

The two newest digital stamps sets in the Angels Landing Nature Series have just been released: Bunny & Violets 2 and Chipmunk & Vinca 2. The grayscale, high-resolution illustrations include shading. The new chipmunk set has the full view of a chipmunk’s entire body, and it is a companion to the close-up set, Chipmunk & [...]

Chipmunk Digi-Stamp Friendship Card

This friendship card is made with the newest release in the Angels Landing Nature Series, Nature Chipmunk & Vinca 1. Both the circular sentiment and the Friend tag come with this digital stamp set.

Copic Color Numbers
Chipmunk E30, E31, E33, E35, E79, W1.
Inner Ears E00, W1, W3, W5.
Vinca Flowers V0000, V01, V12, V15, BV0000, BV00, BV01, [...]

Chipmunk & Vinca Coloring Guide

The second digital stamps set in the Angels Landing Nature Series has just been released: Chipmunk & Vinca 1. The grayscale, high-resolution illustrations include shading. They are done in the same style as the first set in this series, Bunny & Violets 1.
The enlarged diagram below shows the Copic color numbers used on this Chipmunk [...]

Bunny & Violets Coloring Guide

As mentioned in yesterday’s post, I have been illustrating a new Nature series of digital stamps. The first release is Nature Bunny & Violets 1. I’ve been resisting Copic markers for a couple of years, but I finally caved in and ordered some a few weeks ago. My first attempts at coloring this image didn’t [...]

New Tutorial: PDF Snapshot Tool

There’s a new tutorial on the main Angels Landing website: Copy Part of a PDF File. It explains how to use the Snapshot Tool to copy and print specific images from a PDF file. It’s for anyone who would rather work with the PDF versions of the files rather than the individual PNG images.

The Snapshot [...]

How to Make 3-D Cardstock Flowers

There’s a new tutorial on the main Angels Landing website: How to Make 3-D Cardstock Flowers. It explains how to attach multi-layer, three-dimensional cardstock flowers and leaves to wire stems. The directions include a materials list, nine step-by-step photos, and complete instructions.

In the Idea Gallery, you can see a sample project using this technique: 3-D [...]

How to Ground a Digi-Stamp Image

An earlier post showed before and after versions of a sugar glider done with colored pencils. The “after” image wasn’t complete, though, because it was still floating in space. It wasn’t grounded. There are many different ways to ground an image, and the step-by-step photos below show one of the easiest, using chalks or pastels.
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